Guitar Talk

[ChattyKathy]

Thank you RainbowsGirl, and I suspect you know why. :)

Edited March 15, 2007 by ChattyKathy

[polar bear]

I think I will leave the mps on for a week or so. I only have a small space in my attachments space. Can anyone give me an alternate site to post these to so I can leave them on here?

Maybe we should ask Paw to change the name of this thread to "music lovers" since we're getting into some good music.

[dmiller]

I think I will leave the mps on for a week or so. I only have a small space in my attachments space. Can anyone give me an alternate site to post these to so I can leave them on here?

Polar --- get hold of Rick (Bluzeman). I think he has a site that he lets folks post links like that on.

[ChattyKathy]

Yup, he has space and freely offers it. :)

[waysider]

Aaaah Polar Bear,

That was so cool...I love the Blues. Thanks for inviting me here to hear them! I love all music. Mine spans from Rudy Valley to some of the present music today. I like Norah Jones and 50's 60's music a lot. So far I have only read the 1st 10 pages of this post....it is a very enjoyable Post.

Love You All, RainbowsGirl

RG-----There is an R&B artist named Mel Waiters who released a CD about 3 or 4 years ago that included a tune called

" The Smaller the Club, The Bigger the Party."

On that note, welcome to our little "club".

Ladies clearly ruled the early blues roost. There was Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Memphis Minney and later we had Little Esther, Big Maybelle, Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor and on and on.

Some of the more current one you might enjoy are Katie Webster, Lady Bianca, Teeny Tucker and Saphire: The Uppity Blues Women. I'm sure I left out at least a couple hundred.

If it's blues women who also play or played guitar that interests you, you might want to check out Memphis Minney, Del Ray, Etta Baker, Ana Popovic, Deb Davies or Joanna Conner.

Anyway, welcome to guitar talk.

[socks]

Howdy - only got a sec but welcome R-Girl! And enjoy the thread, 'sall good here! Have a fun Friday everyone!

[ChattyKathy]

You also kind man. :)

[waysider]

Told the repo man this mornin'

"Go ahead and take the damn TV!"

I'm tired of lookin' at stuff I can't get

When there's things we really need.

They oughta have a "Poor Folks' Channel"

For people down on their luck

Where they don't advertise not one thing that costs you more than a buck.

I've got 14 dollars in the bank,

Fifteen hundred worth of unpaid bills(just this month)

Told my baby,"It's gonna be alright"

(But I don't believe it will.)

--------That's from "$14 in The Bank" by Paul DeLay-----It's one of my favorite P.D. songs

Sad, sad news in the music world today. I just learned that the Gentle Giant himself, Paul Delay passed away last

Wednesday ,3/07/07, in Portland, Oregon. Paul had just played a gig and felt under the weather. He thought he might have bronchitis so he went to the hospital. It turns out he was in the very last stage of leukemia. That was on Monday and he passed away on that Wednesday. He was only 55. There will be a special memorial concert in Portland on April first, but I don't know any details. Besides being perhaps the greatest harmonica player that ever lived, he was a super "all around nice guy." I have a couple Paul stories, but I'll save them for another time.

May you rest in peace,Paul. You will be missed in a very big way.

[ChattyKathy]

[socks]

Welcome, Rainbowsgirl - I think you'll find some Norah fans here, and here's a link to Norah's site

if you need it!

Her guitarist Adam Levy is a great player. Select BAND on her site and there's a writeup about him. He's got the Dream Gig, so that may account for his somewhat ecstatic attitude live. I've seen her with my wife and family a few times, and she's always been great.

Which reminds me of James Burton, the guy playing electric Telecaster on all the old Ricky Nelson tunes from the "Ozzie and Harriet Show". As an accompaniest he really made great work in just a few bars of a solo. Just came across his site recently.

[dmiller]

Waysider -- sorry to hear that.

Reminds me of a band I used to listen to.

3 guys -- rhythm guitar, lead guitar, and bass.

They were called Don and the Doo-rights.

Don was the rhythm guitar player, and vocalist for the band.

He knew every old country song that was ever sung.

JD was the lead guitarist.

He could play just like Chet Atkins, and he excelled at banjo too.

He learned how to play banjo from Earl Scruggs,

but figured out the Chet Atkins stuff on his own.

Joe was the bass player (I never did know his last name).

At the last gig they ever played together ----

They were playing a gig at a casino, here in the northland.

Joe asked Don to play some Patsy Cline song.

(I don't remember now which one -- but Joe said it was his favorite).

Don said YEA!!!! -- and swung into it.

Halfway through the first verse, Joe slumped over.

Heart attack.

There were several medical folks in the audience,

and by the time they got to him, he was gone.

Joe always did say he wanted to die on stage, playing the music he loved.

He got his wish.

Edited March 17, 2007 by dmiller

[ChattyKathy]

Dying sucks but when you go it sure would be nice doing what you loved I think.

[RainbowsGirl]

Hey Everyone!

Thank You all for the warm welcome! From everything that I have read here thus far..(I'm on page 35)...I am going to enjoy you all and this post immensely. It is profoundly evident that Music permeates a huge part of your hearts, souls, and spirits. You are all so amazingly talented and knowledgable Already, I have learned a lot more from all of you about music than I have ever known.

I always loved the music from the early TWI days...Joyful Noise, Press Down,Ted Farrell, Sela, Good Seed, Acts 29.....I always wished I could have afforded it all at the Bookstore back then. Recently, I have found some of it and had some of it shared to us............It is so exciting to know that it was not lost and that some of the muscians have continued on. I bid on "Star Of The Show" LP on Ebay...and at the last minute was out bid...It went for about $40.00!

Thank You all for filling in my musical gaps and teaching music from your inside perspectives. Music speaks to our hearts in it's own language...It soothes and heals and runs the gamut of all our emotions....I can appreciate it, drowned in it, and enjoy it....and be uniquely touched by it's lasting imprint. Thanks to all of you for your exceptionally talented musicians and lyrisists for your diligent study, practise and insatiable love for music!!!!!

Love You All, RainbowsGirl

[walking]

Hey Everyone!

Thank You all for the warm welcome! From everything that I have read here thus far..(I'm on page 35)...I am going to enjoy you all and this post immensely. It is profoundly evident that Music permeates a huge part of your hearts, souls, and spirits. You are all so amazingly talented and knowledgable Already, I have learned a lot more from all of you about music than I have ever known.

I always loved the music from the early TWI days...Joyful Noise, Press Down,Ted Farrell, Sela, Good Seed, Acts 29.....I always wished I could have afforded it all at the Bookstore back then. Recently, I have found some of it and had some of it shared to us............It is so exciting to know that it was not lost and that some of the muscians have continued on. I bid on "Star Of The Show" LP on Ebay...and at the last minute was out bid...It went for about $40.00!

Thank You all for filling in my musical gaps and teaching music from your inside perspectives. Music speaks to our hearts in it's own language...It soothes and heals and runs the gamut of all our emotions....I can appreciate it, drowned in it, and enjoy it....and be uniquely touched by it's lasting imprint. Thanks to all of you for your exceptionally talented musicians and lyrisists for your diligent study, practise and insatiable love for music!!!!!

Love You All, RainbowsGirl

Hello all. Joe here. Guitars! Music! Did I see mention of Lp's? I just walked in don't mind me I would just like to sit back and listen for awhile.

[dmiller]

Hello all. Joe here. Guitars! Music! Did I see mention of Lp's? I just walked in don't mind me I would just like to sit back and listen for awhile.

Hey Joe (woops -- that reminds me of a song Hendrix did!) --- welcome. :)

When you're tired of listening, jump right in.

Edited March 17, 2007 by dmiller

[socks]

Welcome Joe! LP's! Vinyl! Yikes!

Got a stack of "albums" myself. I've only experimented with a couple things in converting to digital format. Although they have their own characteristic sound in the original format, the ease of storing and getting what you want when you want it is increased dramatically in the digital/"computer" format.

Speaking of which I found this link that describes the basics of doing that if anyone's looking to do so - Bob Rankin describes the steps here.

I have a 16 track recording deck I've used to do some, which has a 20 gig hard drive, but the drive has other things on it and fills up quickly. Recording directly to a PC "on the fly" is probably the simplest way to do it, although I wouldn't recommend recording an entire album side in one sweep as the resulting file will be humongous and difficult to edit. There's free downloadable software to do it. With a couple cables, turntable and a PC it's very doable. Any experience with this, Bluzeman, or ... ?

[waysider]

Hi Joe!

Just wondering if your handle is a hint that you play bass.

Ya know, like"Play me a 1/4 note "walking bass".?

This next tune is in AMajor so jump right in when your ready.

(That would be a D harp for all you cross harp players.)

Anywho, welcome to our little juke joint.

[ChattyKathy]

Welcome Joe.

And it's cool to see RG hanging with us also. :)

This is one of those threads that can sooth your heart when you just need some down time.

[socks]

Star of the Show was a great tune, RG!

PDSTRO (whew! that name) were great, sang their butz off back 'in the day'. Had such a tight blend.

I agree it is nice to have that in our past, something that was good, meaningful.

Having played since I was 10, first "gig" when I was 13, it means a lot to see my kids play now, others. And to be doing things myself now. If you'd asked me then if I'd be doing this now, I would have laughed. But at this point, it's the only way it could have worked out, y'know? I'm happy. And happy to be happy. :)

I'll be off and on over the next week, so if I don't show much don't hold it against me.

Carry on with the style and class you all know so well. I'll be back.

[walking]

Hello waysider. "Just wondering if your handle is a hint that you play bass.

Ya know, like"Play me a 1/4 note "walking bass".?" No that is just coincedence. Funny I did try to learn bass as my first instrument in the 70's so I did remember the term when you mentioned it. I just pulled that name out of the hat. I have done a lot of walking. Oh I probably will pick up a bass guitar again. Right now I am learning Classical style applied with a pick to a steel string and sight reading. messed around with guitar for a long time but can't say I can play it though I dabbled with open tunings, dropped D. Travis picking kept me going all through the years. I favor blues but haved touched a little bit on many different styles which I hope will come out when I am comfortable with my ability.

Socks. I am a vinyl person, tough I also have Cd's. I use a stand alone recorder for Lp to Cd recording. I have a second hard drive for storing music. I do store all the Cd's on computer also. Some times people give me their records so I record the ones they want to have on CD for them and those I copy to computer. I might get a software to slpit tracks one day but right now it's not a priorty.

Thank you also, RainbowsGirl, ChattyKathy, dmiller.

Got to practice. My lessons are today. My left hand has entered a whole new world, plus years of slop playing bad habits.

I will check back

Thanks all

Joe

[T-Bone]

Welcome to GSC, RainbowsGirl – I love checking out this Guitar thread myself – lots of great stuff here – and I agree with what you said about music speaking to our hearts in its own language…Also a big hearty welcome to Walking! I envy anyone that studies classical style guitar and can sight read. I’m a self-taught bass player [although it’s more of just a hobby now – haven’t played with anyone since I left TWI in 86].

Dmiller, I thought you might appreciate this. Tonto is a Beatle and Bluegrass fan – and being the experienced Indian scout that she is - read about a Beatlegras concert nearby…so last night we went - wow wee!!! These guys are fantastic! After their second tune I ran over to a concession stand selling their CDs and bought one for fear they’d be sold out later…Anyway – I love to hear different arrangements of favorite tunes and experiencing the meld of musical influences. The stand up bass player, George Anderson – just blew me away – especially on one solo where he did that – I don’t know what you call it, scat singing or something – like when a guitarist whistles or sings non-words along with their guitar notes - - simply amazing…You can check out a video of them in concert on You Tube at

[ChattyKathy]

Nice song T-Bone, thank you for bringing it here.

[Cowgirl]

T-Bone,

Those guys are awesome, especially the mandolin player!!! I was just listening to them do "Mother Nature's Son " (I first heard it done by John Denver years ago) I absolutely love the way they do it!!

Thanks

Cowgirl

[dmiller]

The stand up bass player, George Anderson – just blew me away – especially on one solo where he did that – I don’t know what you call it, scat singing or something – like when a guitarist whistles or sings non-words along with their guitar notes - - simply amazing.

Scat singing. Yup, that's what it's called. Ella Fitzgerald was famous for that,

even though she scat sang along with someone else playing the instrument.

Tim O'Brien used to do it a bit too,

when he was with the HOT RIZE BAND,

And John Hartford was good at scat singing too,

as he picked his banjo and shuffled his feet in time. :)

[dmiller]

T-bone --- forgot to say Beatlegrass!!! Great link!

for Tonto. :)

(Cowgirl -- you will enjoy the mandolin picking on this one!)

And --- clicking on your other link, I found the next one here attached.

BELA PLAYING BACH ON THE BANJO